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Adam Bede (1859)
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds...
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Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it.
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All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children — in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy.
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Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.
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How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? Or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections?
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There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it.
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It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes.
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I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible.
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It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
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It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.
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It's them as take advantage that get advantage in this world.
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past—sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories.
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Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe: evil spreads as necessarily as disease.
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Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
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Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
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He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
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It was the last weakness he meant to indulge in; and a man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it tomorrow.
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A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
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George Eliot
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Born:
November 22, 1819
Died:
December 22, 1880
(aged 61)
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